mad in pursuit journal

DISPATCHED FROM THE CROSSROADS

Tired of my tight cartoon ladies, I decided to do a quick experiment on
the more surrealist side. Draw some "phantoms" directly into Photoshop,
trying to bypass my overactive brain as much as possible.

The surrealists embraced the concept of art drawn from
the unconscious, to convey meaning without the limitation of representing
reality. Sometimes they used automatism -- "the supposedly
spontaneous transcription of the unconscious made by the artist's hand
moving automatically without the deliberate interference of reason... an
attempt to circumvent the rational mind and plunge straight to the
unconscious."*

Well, I don't think I was getting too deep, but I made a few scribbles.
This morning my exercise was to see how fast I could turn them into
an animation.